Oklahoma sports milestones: Former softball pitcher Melissa Rhodes to appear on 'Worst Cooks in America'
The former Putnam City North and Oklahoma City University pitcher is recovering from an eating disorder and will appear on the reality show Feb. 12.
Each Tuesday, Oklahoma Sports Milestones will salute athletes, coaches, support staff and fans — the essential people it takes to produce the game day experience.
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1.5: The University of Central Oklahoma athletic department received the largest single gift in its history on Friday, $1.5 million from the widow of former three-sport standout Don Burget. The money will be used to start the Don and Shigeko Burget Athletic Scholarship Fund.
Shigeko Burget said her husband, who died at age 77 in January 2011, credited his success in life to a scholarship he was given by UCO, then known as Central State College. Don Burget starred in football, basketball and track at Edmond Memorial High School in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He excelled in all three sports in college; Burget was inducted into the school's Athletics Hall of Fame in 1998.
Don Burget coached basketball at Capitol Hill and John Marshall high schools, before moving to California to continue a career in education.
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*RECOVERING: From an eating disorder and scheduled to appear on “Worst Cooks in America,” former Putnam City North High School and Oklahoma City University softball pitcher Melissa Rhodes. She will be on the Food Network's reality show at 8 p.m. Feb. 12; Rhodes is learning how to cook food she avoided during her condition. The All-Sooner Athletic Conference pitcher lost 40 pounds after her college career ended in 2005. She was an inpatient three years ago at Remuda Ranch, a rehabilitation hospital for eating disorders in Wickenburg, Ariz. Rhodes will tell her story, including the battles she continues to fight, during the program.
*DIED: At age 74, former Drumright High School basketball star Bobby Cloer. The four-year starter helped the Tornadoes to a 23-4 record and the 1955 Class A state semifinals, where they lost to Chickasha 53-51 at Municipal Auditorium. He received a basketball scholarship to the University of Tulsa but did not letter for the Golden Hurricane. Cloer transferred to Oklahoma State, where he earned a mechanical engineering degree.
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